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But you're a 13 year old girl, like what does fighting give you at that time in your life?

The element of surprise.

Ooh!

You get to see the great boots, great shoes too, Kat.

I know, you really, we pulled through the shoe game.

Strong shoe game.

I usually show up with my PJs.

For whatever reason, I was like, you know what? but I'm gonna just actually get dressed.

And then everyone liked the outfit, I was like, wow, this is the first time.

I'm so flattered.

Okay, so we're good?

Okay, whoa, we're going.

We're going.

I feel really lucky to be talking to you right now in particular, because you're a producer with a film with festival buzz.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

How does it feel to have Christie out in the world?

Christy is one of those projects and stories that, like when you're making it, the crew, the cast, everyone involved,

we all knew it was going to be something special.

We had Christy with us on set many days.

We would sometimes just like cry because of how powerful the story is.

And so being able to share that experience with the world

and to be able to show Christy's story to the world is so impactful.

And I'm beyond honored and proud that we were able to bring this story to life in the beginning, it's also really fun.

For context, like you've got headgear on.

Yes.

You've got a mouth guard in.

And you are grinning as you punch people.

And you look completely unselfconscious and completely joyful.

First of all, was it as much fun as it looked?

It was so much fun.

I was over the moon.

I felt like I finally came to life myself through Christie we really shaped every single fight to match Christie's fights.

And so all the different combos that you see me doing are the actual combos from the fights.

And I had the best girls to box with because they were down to actually fight.

And we would do full contact.

We were punching each other in the face.

And so a lot of those reactions are me as Christy, but also me just like couldn't believe that I actually did it just then.

So you have a background in martial arts.

I do.

Okay, so tell me about that.

You're what, 13?

Yeah, I was like 12, 13, and I started kickboxing and grappling.

And I trained at GoCore Hyaston with Sensei Jean LaBelle and Benny LeJet in GoCore.

and I did that from 12, 13 years old until I was about 19 and then I booked

Handmaid's Tale and Euphoria and I can't fight

and film at the same time because I'd come home with bruises

so I put it to the side

but I always wanted to find a story that would be able to bring that side of myself out.

But you're a 13 year old girl like what does fighting give you at that time in your life?

The element of surprise.

I was the only girl there

so there it was a lot of talk of oh what

is she doing here the dads are kind of a little like upset

that their sons would be fighting a girl and then I would sometimes win.

Okay so I have this sense

that you're someone who keeps a strong division between your characters

and your personal self and I just wondered if that is harder

when you've done this physical transformation for a character like Christy like

you come home or come back to your hotel room like in her body in some ways.

I actually learned so much more about myself throughout the process

and I am someone who I build my book for my character

and I learn everything about her life so

that I can fully jump in and out and throughout

that process of building Christy and working with Christy and filming the movie I started realizing I was like,

oh wow, I actually have more in common with her than I realized.

She is fighting a fight in her home life and she's also fighting a fight in the public.

And I think that for me, I find myself in a lot of battles,

both in front and not in front of the world.

So I definitely can relate.

I mean, Christie is a story about domestic violence and specifically like homophobia and domestic violence.

And The Housemaid, which I also saw, takes on domestic violence from, a totally different genre.

And then I did read that your American Eagle collection benefited a domestic violence charity.

Is that, do I have all that right?

Yes.

Okay.

You spent a lot of time this year working around that issue, and I just wondered if it meant something to you.

It does.

I always speak out about something that is important to me.

And for me to speak out, I use art.

And I think that through my characters and my movies, it's a way for me to be able to do my part

that I can and spread awareness in different ways through my characters.

And that's how I've always learned to communicate.

And it's really important.

If I look at your IMDb page, I'm thinking about you're on Euphoria,

which is a show that covers a lot of topics without taking a moral stance on any of them.

And you did Reality, which I love, which brought a lot of attention and humanity to the story of Reality Winner, the whistleblower.

It does not look like a very political career, but you have become very swept up in politics.

And so I wondered if that has surprised you as you put your ideas and yourself into art, not commentary.

I've always believed that I'm not here to tell people what to think.

I'm just here to kind of open their eyes to different ideas.

And so I think that's why I gravitate towards characters

and stories that are complicated and are maybe morally questionable and characters that are on the page hard to like,

but then you find the humanity underneath them.

And that's what I've always leaned towards.

I think a lot of people feel like it's better for art

if artists can keep themselves a little bit separate from politics.

Yeah, I've never talked about my personal life.

I know.

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So what I'm going to do is talk about your year as a phenomenon in the culture.

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Okay.

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And a big thing that happened to you this year is that you ended your engagement.

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And I got push notifications about it it was

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and we all sort of looked up

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and we're like oh sydney sweeney isn't just a talented actress

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and an up-and-coming producer she's someone that people are really obsessed with

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and really fascinated by oh man i know

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and i just i wondered did your sense of your own

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fame change this year no i surround myself with a really

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really strong group of people who have been in my life since I was little.

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And they take me out of Hollywood, take me out of this bubble and remind me what the real world is and that that's where I exist.

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The idea of fame, it doesn't apply to my personal life.

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I'm just sad.

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You can't feel the difference in the volume at times.

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If I turn on my phone, yes.

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If I have my phone off and I'm home, no. Right.

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Okay, so what is it like now being single?

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Are you single?

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I'm single.

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Okay, you're single.

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You are out there now as a person who has a lot of power, I would say.

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A person who people are obsessed with and someone who I gather is like really, really focused on their work.

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So I wonder how does that change what you're looking for?

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I don't think I'm looking for a man right now.

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What I've learned this year is that I have a really, really amazing group of girlfriends, and I am strong and independent,

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and that I'm going to be okay.

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If love finds me, love finds me.

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I'm hopeless romantic, so I hope love finds me, but I'm not the type of person that wants to go out all the time.

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and I do believe in true love and wanting to be with someone for the rest of my life.

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So I'm not going to, you won't see me jumping around a lot of places.

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Wait, jumping around a lot of places like?

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Like guys.

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Oh, okay.

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Okay.

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So you are making Anyone But You and there's sort of, what do we call it,

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like a game almost with sort of letting rumors build about you and Glenn.

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And we all now know that that was a projection, let's say on our parts, that wasn't real.

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But it occurred to me that maybe that story doesn't go so viral

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if you're not a very private person I imagine there are personal benefits to being private about your personal life

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but are there also professional benefits to being private about your personal life the professional benefits for me

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and being private is for my own just health and sanity.

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If I let everybody in all the time, I have nothing for myself.

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And I am just a 27 year old or 28 now.

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I turned 27, 28 yesterday.

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Happy birthday.

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Thank you.

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But I'm just a 28 year old woman who's trying to figure it out.

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And I'm still learning and I'm going to make mistakes and I'm going to grow.

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And I think that it's important to be able to do that without having to say every single thing all the time.

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Right okay but so you're never tempted to just like open your notes app

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and say this is what I really think

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and this is who I am and this is going on in my life and like stop guessing and projecting.

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I mean all offense to my girlfriends but other than

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that no. No. No. Okay that's honestly really impressive like I know who I am.

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Right.

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I know what I I know that I'm a kind person.

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I know that I love a lot.

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And I know that I'm just excited to see what happens next.

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And so I don't really let other people define who I am.

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I'm happy to hear that.

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I have a second-hand concern for you lately.

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Thank you.

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We're sort of talking around this American Eagle ad right now, and maybe we should just talk about it.

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So were you surprised by the reaction?

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I did a jean ad.

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I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but it was, I love jeans.

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All I wear are jeans.

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I'm literally in jeans and a t-shirt like every day of my life.

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Jeans are uncontroversial.

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Jeans are awesome.

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You look great in your jeans.

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I think I know how you're gonna answer this, but I'm gonna ask anyway.

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I mean, the president tweeted about the jeans ad or Truth Socialed about the jeans ad.

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And that just seems to me like a very crazy moment for anyone.

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And I wondered what that was like.

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It was surreal.

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It was surreal.

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And it would be totally human.

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I would probably feel like thankful that somebody had my back in public,

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you know, and conveniently some very powerful people had my back in public.

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And I wondered if you felt that way.

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I don't think that...

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It's not that that feeling didn't...

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I didn't have that feeling, but I wasn't thinking of it like that or like of any of it.

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I kind of just put my phone away.

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I was filming every day.

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I'm filming Euphoria, so I'm working like 16 hour days and I don't really bring my phone on set.

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So I work and then I go home and I go to sleep.

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So I didn't really, I didn't really see a lot of it.

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You've made a really good case for keeping your thoughts and your life separate from that work.

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But the risk is that, you know, there's a chance that somebody will get some idea about what you think about certain issues

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and feel like I don't wanna see Christie because of that.

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Like, do you worry about that?

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No. No. If somebody is closed off because of something they read online

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to a powerful story like Christie,

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then I hope that, I hope something else can open their eyes to being open to art and being open to

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learning and I'm not gonna be affected by that.

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Yeah, you've come here like really willing to talk about this whole discourse

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that doesn't have that much to do with you and I'm grateful for that.

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Is there something that you want to say about the ad itself?

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The Sydney Sweeney has great genes.

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Do you have?

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The ad spoke for itself.

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You think the ad spoke for itself?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And the criticism of the content, which was basically that maybe specifically in this political climate,

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like white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority.

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Like that was kind of like the criticism, broadly speaking.

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And since you are talking about this, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically.

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I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.

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We should talk about Cassie.

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You got back together with Cassie.

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You spent some time in Cassieland.

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I am.

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I wondered if after the break and after the changes in your life, since last time you were Cassie,

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if you came back to that role with a different perspective on her character, her arc.

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Well, Cassie and the whole world of Euphoria is now five years ahead.

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So all the characters are living in the real world.

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They're dealing with very real world life problems.

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And Cassie, Cassie's just so much fun.

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She's so crazy.

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And I don't know if I can implement any of my own knowledge

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or life experiences to Cassie because she's just so on her own plane and in her own world and thinks completely differently.

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It's such a fun rollercoaster ride because I'm getting to go to all these insane places.

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She's crazy.

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I thank Sam like every day for giving me a character like her in my 20s

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because Sam put together a show of like a powerhouse lineup of really interesting storylines and characters.

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And being able to go back to Cassie and grow with her and go even crazier is such a treat.

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I always feel like I'm going home.

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One thing we haven't talked about that you've talked about a lot,

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but I wonder how it's coming up now and your work is the way women,

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women actors and you are represented on screen.

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The early part of your career was defined by a lot of chatter about that, right?

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About is it an empowering or not empowering?

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Blah, blah, blah.

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In regards to my body?

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Yeah.

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And like Cassie, I think, brought that out.

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And that doesn't really seem to be part of the story anymore.

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And I wonder if you feel like Hollywood is changing or if it has to do with being an actor, producer roles.

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I think that the conversation around it is changing.

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I've always looked at a woman's body as a very beautiful, powerful tool.

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I transform my body for Christy.

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It's a challenge but then also really amazing at the same time

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that we're capable of doing stuff like that and being able to tell stories through our body.

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And I've always looked at it that way.

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I've always looked at it as my body is another tool to tell this story.

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How does using that tool change when you are more in the driver's seat as a producer?

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I mean, I'm thinking about the housemaid, like, there's a scene in that where you're in this home theater and you're wearing like a push-up bra.

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And she's like, okay, this is not a push-up bra.

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It's just my boobs.

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Wow.

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Fact check me.

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Fact check.

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That's just like a sports bra or something.

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Yeah.

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Good God.

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Okay.

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I mean, she's wearing what she'd wear.

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It's like, she's being comfortable.

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It's for herself.

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It's not for anybody else.

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Great.

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Yeah.

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That, I mean, that's sort of where I was going with it, though, is that watching that scene, I had this feeling of there's a self-awareness and knowingness to this that,

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you know, it is a casual sweatshirt, her boobs are out, and then you're like,

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the wife comes in and like comments on it in this way that to me felt very like funny.

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Letting Sydney use her body in this way,

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but also commenting on it in a knowing way that lets you know that we're all in on this joke.

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And I guess I wondered if that is a hallmark of having you having more control of the project.

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I think so.

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I think that as time goes on, people will see that I'm way more aware of things than people think.

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Can you say a little bit more?

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I mean, if I say it, then I like to let the art speak for itself.

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I think that's where it's fun.

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Okay.

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But you know that you are like, you are giving us permission to keep projecting.

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A little bit, like we're gonna keep taking what you do and like putting it up on our board.

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I'm like, what does Sydney think?

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I can't wait to see what the board says.

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Okay.

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That felt like a punctuation.

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Wow.

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It's a beautiful punctuation.

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Awesome.

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Thank you.

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Thank you guys.

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Yeah, thank you guys.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Sydney Sweeney Speaks on That American Eagle Ad & Her Body Transformation”. Deze video bevat 289 zinnen en 2986 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 19:32. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 153 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

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De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
obsess werkwoord	/əbˈsɛs/	obsederen
punctuation zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/	interpunctie
empower werkwoord	/ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/	volmacht geven, machtigen
surreal bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/səˈɹiː(.ə)l/	surreëel, bovenwerkelijk
bruise zelfstandig naamwoord	/bɹuz/	blauwe plek
chatter werkwoord	/ˈt͡ʃætɚ/	babbelen, kletsen
fascinate werkwoord	/ˈfæsɪneɪt/	fascineren
flatter werkwoord	/ˈflætɚ/	complimenteren
grapple werkwoord	/ˈɡɹæpəl/	vastgrijpen, grijpen
hallmark zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhɔlmɑɹk/	kenmerk, kenteken
homophobia zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/	homofobie
impactful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɪmpæktfəl/	invloedrijk, effectief
powerhouse zelfstandig naamwoord		krachtbron
rollercoaster zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹoʊlɚˌkoʊstɚ/	achtbaan
sweatshirt zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈswɛtʃəːt/	sweatshirt

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Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
go out werkwoord		naar buiten gaan
look up werkwoord	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	opkijken
speak out werkwoord		zich uitspreken

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For whatever reason, I was like, you know what?
Is that, do I have all that right?
You think the ad spoke for itself?
In regards to my body?
Can you say a little bit more?

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De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	you've done · I've always learned · have become
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	someone who keeps · someone who I · people who have
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	is closed · be affected · are represented

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 103 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: punctuation /ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/, projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, martial /ˈmɑɹʃəl/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: punctuation /ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/, homophobia /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/, rollercoaster /ˈɹoʊlɚˌkoʊstɚ/, conveniently /kənˈvinjəntli/, superiority /sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.ti/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, bruise /bɹuz/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, buzz /bʌz/, regards /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: chatter /ˈt͡ʃætɚ/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, flatter /ˈflætɚ/, grapple /ˈɡɹæpəl/, gravitate /ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grapple /ˈɡɹæpəl/, gravitate /ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/, headgear /ˈhɛdɡɪɹ/, grin /ɡɹɪn/, regards /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/

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